When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
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A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
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Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
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Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.
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Words cannot convey the value of yoga – it has to be experienced.
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Yoga is the method by which the restless mind is calmed And the energy directed into constructive channels.
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If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.
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If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
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We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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